Muffled Power Armor Voices

[MaiYass]

For some reason anyone with power armor has muffled voices, I used to play FO3 on the 360 and I don't remember this happening at all, any suggestions?

[Craftian]

From memory, it's intentional. Obviously wearing a helmet would muffle the projection of the user's voice, so the power armor effect should be there by default. It might've been different on the console but I've only played it on PC.

[CrackeR]

Always been muffled for me , duh, theyre inside an enclosed helmet! lol

[Nireg]

Hello, I have the solution.

And no, "Always been muffled for me, duh, they're inside an enclosed helmet! Lol" is not the solution.

To solve it you must go to "My documents - My Games - Fallout 3". (Remember, don't go to the steam folder). There you will find a file called Fallout.ini (or "FALLOUT"), double click and look for the "Audio" section, in it you must change 2 numbers (it is a text document, you click on the place you want to write and write the number that you have to put as if it were a Word document, then click on the X to close and that's it)
Find a line called "fDialogMinDistance =" and change the number to 25.00. Then find another line at the end of the "Audio" section called "fFilterDistortionGain =" and change the number, put -7.5.

I also played the Xbox 360 version and I could also see that there was a bug in my steam version. The audio notes and the people wearing helmets were heard loudly low and it is impossible to hear them.

If when you fix it you can, for example, hear the audio notes well but not people with powerarmor google something like "Fallout 3 voice bug" or "Fallout 3 sound bug".

It works perfectly for me, I hope it works well for you too.

My English is not very good, if someone has not understood how to do what I have said, they only have to ask it and I will try to explain myself better.

Good looting.

[Bandy]

Interesting thread and solution post, but the muffled helmet voices are a game asset to me, but understnad a different opinion/preference.

[Spec_ops_Gaming]

Originally posted by Bandy:

Interesting thread and solution post, but the muffled helmet voices are a game asset to me, but understnad a different opinion/preference.

no, what these guys are talking about isn't the intended muffling that you are supposed to hear. it's an audio bug that affects NPCs wearing power armor in some peoples game, the NPC's voice in power armor is VERY VERY quiet, to the point of being nearly impossible to hear them at all, even when all other NPCs in the game has very audible dialogue even if the voice volume is turned down. it's a very confusing bug to try to google because obviously people just assume all of us that have this bug are just retarded and don't know how the game works, when in fact we do but we are just experiencing a bug that causes certain dialogue lines to be much lower in volume than what they are supposed to be.